Limelight fingerprintBig heart, striking style, low-key.
Calm and low-key
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Moving and nostalgic
A little humor
Not a comedy at heart.
Show business
Standout performances, direction, and characters
Standout score
Calm and low-key
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Limelight is calm and low-intensity. The story builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Moving and nostalgic
Emotionally, it's moving, nostalgic, and wholesome.
Show business
Its world is built around show business.
Standout performances, direction, and characters
The performances, direction, and characters stand out.
Based on the GoodWatch fingerprint: our scores for 70+ attributes of every movie. Select a row to see all of them.
The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!
You are here: LimelightTap a poster to move
You are herePreview
vscompared with Limelight
Limelight1952
Point at a poster to compare itHold a poster to compare it
A chip fills to its level. Tap a full one for titles without that trait, a low one for titles with it.
Open a page:A Star Is Born (1954)Children of Paradise (1945)Cinema Paradiso (1988)The Barefoot Contessa (1954)The Concert (2009)The History of Sound (2025)Honkytonk Man (1982)Sweet and Lowdown (1999)The Legend of 1900 (1998)The Illusionist (2010)Chico & Rita (2010)The Red Shoes (1948)An American in Paris (1951)La Strada (1954)Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)A Star Is Born (1937)New York, New York (1977)A Man and a Woman (1966)Café Society (2016)Gigi (1958)Dark Victory (1939)Swing Time (1936)Living (2022)Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)An Affair to Remember (1957)The Immigrant (2013)The Girl with the Red Scarf (1977)Going My Way (1944)Moulin Rouge (1952)The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)Random Harvest (1942)Crazy Heart (2009)The Shop Around the Corner (1940)The Chorus (2004)Waterloo Bridge (1940)Nights of Cabiria (1957)Stan & Ollie (2018)Oklahoma! (1955)We Are the Best! (2013)Now, Voyager (1942)Saving Mr. Banks (2013)Lootera (2013)Maria (2024)L'Atalante (1934)Parineeta (2005)Brigadoon (1954)Funny Girl (1968)The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)Me and Orson Welles (2008)Black Beauty (1994)Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)River of No Return (1954)Populaire (2012)Quartet (2012)Chicken with Plums (2011)Persuasion (2007)The Illusionist (2006)That Thing You Do! (1996)Blue Moon (2025)Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)Dodsworth (1936)Separate Tables (1958)My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
Limelight is included with a subscription to TCM and HBO Max in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Kanopy. You can also rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, and Fandango At Home. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Yes. It's widely acclaimed, with a GoodWatch score of 82/100 (IMDb 8, Rotten Tomatoes 88%, and Metacritic 84). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
It's rated G in the United States.
2 h 17 min
Limelight runs 2 h 17 min.
Not quite. Critics rate Limelight higher (86) than audiences (78). It may be more rewarding than it is crowd-pleasing.
Roughly broke even. It cost about $900,000 to make and earned $1 million worldwide, 1.1 times its budget.
It was made in English. Produced in United States.
+45GoodWatch finds legal streaming, rental, or purchase options for Limelight in 59 countries. Pick any of them in Where to Watch to see the local services.
TV Tropes lists 25 storytelling tropes for Limelight, including Death of the Hypotenuse, Downer Beginning, Oblivious Mockery.
8.0
